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Saint Augustine: The City of God, Books XVII–XXII is unavailable, but you can change that!

Perhaps one of the most profound treatises on Christianity and government, the City of God envisions Christianity as a spiritual force, which should preoccupy itself with the heavenly city, New Jerusalem, rather than the earthly municipal and state affairs. The Fathers of the Church Series has divided this ancient classic into three convenient volumes.

that the angel wanted no one to know the secret of who is on the Devil’s side and who is not. For, to be sure, this secret division is absolutely unknowable in this world of time, inasmuch as we have no certainty whether the man who is now upright is going to fall, and the one who is now lying flat is going to rise to righteousness. The nations or men freed from the Devil’s seductions, in virtue of this restraining and disabling chaining and imprisonment, are those whom he used to lead astray and
Pages 268–269
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